In the X Window System, an X display manager is a graphical login manager which starts a login session on an X server from the same or another computer...
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An X window manager is a window manager that runs on top of the X Window System, a windowing system mainly used on Unix-like systems. Unlike MacOS Classic...
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responsibility of the display server. Users of the X Window System have the ability to easily use many different window managers – Metacity, used in GNOME...
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XDM (redirect from X Window Display Manager)
to: X display manager, a part of the X Window System architecture XDM (display manager), the default display manager included with the X Window System...
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libraries. The X.Org Server is a display server, but in its current implementation it relies on a second program, the compositing window manager, to do the...
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KDE Display Manager (KDM) was a display manager (a graphical login program) developed by KDE for the windowing systems X11. KDE Display Manager was based...
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The X Display Manager (XDM) is the default display manager for the X Window System. It is a bare-bones X display manager. It was introduced with X11 Release...
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GNOME Display Manager (GDM) is a display manager (a graphical login manager) for the windowing systems X11 and Wayland. The X Window System by default...
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The X video extension, often abbreviated as XVideo or Xv, is a video output mechanism for the X Window System. The protocol was designed by David Carver;...
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In computing, the X Window System (commonly: X11, or X) is a network-transparent windowing system for bitmap displays. This article details the protocols...
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result into the display memory. A compositing window manager is a window manager that is also a compositing manager. Compositing managers may perform additional...
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A stacking window manager (also called floating window manager) is a window manager that draws and allows windows to overlap, without using a compositing...
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computing, the Motif Window Manager (MWM) is an X window manager based on the Motif toolkit. MWM is a lightweight window manager, having robust compliance...
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Mutter (software) (redirect from Mutter (window manager))
window manager initially designed and implemented for the X Window System, but then evolved to be a Wayland compositor. It became the default window manager...
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tiling window manager is a window manager with the organization of the screen often dependant on mathematical formulas to organise the windows into a...
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or Windows PowerShell. Task Manager was introduced in its current form with Windows NT 4.0. Prior versions of Windows NT, as well as Windows 3.x, include...
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re-parenting window manager is an X Window System window manager that adopts all other windows. In the X Window System, every window has a parent window, which...
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Twm (redirect from Tom's Window Manager)
(Tab Window Manager) is a window manager for the X Window System. Started in 1987 by Tom LaStrange, it has been the standard window manager for the X Window...
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Entrance /ɛnˈtræns/ is a display manager for the X Window System. It is written using the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries, a graphical toolkit written...
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The following dynamic window managers are available for the X Window System: awesome bluetile - A full featured window manager for the GNOME environment...
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window manager for the X Window System. It aims to manage windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible. It is able to match a window by...
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using windows as one of its main "metaphors" is called a windowing system, whose main components are the display server and the window manager. The idea...
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In computing, an X terminal is a display/input terminal for X Window System client applications. X terminals enjoyed a period of popularity in the early...
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GNUstep (redirect from WINGs Display Manager)
This was the first version of libobjcX. It enabled them to port HippoDraw to Unix systems running the X Window System without changing a single line...
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The X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems. X originated as part of Project...
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Compiz (redirect from Beryl (window manager))
a compositing window manager for the X Window System, using 3D graphics hardware to create fast compositing desktop effects for window management. Effects...
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stacking window manager in Windows XP and earlier (and also Windows Vista and Windows 7 with Windows Aero disabled) comprises a single display buffer to...
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i3 is a tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii and written in C. It supports tiling, stacking, and tabbing layouts, which are handled...
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Wayland (protocol) (redirect from Wayland (display manager))
Rendering Infrastructure (DRI), Direct Rendering Manager (DRM)) "in the middle", with "window systems like X and Wayland ... off in the corner". This will...
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KWin (category Free X window managers)
window manager for the X Window System and a Wayland compositor. It is released as a part of KDE Plasma, for which it is the default window manager....
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